On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:58:37 -0500 "Matthew Kopishke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I am in desperate need of help. I had two 60gb disks running in a > RAID 1 using a Promise FastTrack IDE RAID card and the linux ATARaid > support with a EXT3 FS (2.4.18). Over the weekend, as far as I can > tell, one of the drive died (it just clicks now) so the file system > went read only and there it sat for a day. My boss tried to restart > the machine, and eventually must have done a hard reset. When I got > it the machine was stuck trying to do a fsck on the file system. > > I pulled the dead drive and stuck the "good" one on a plain IDE > channel, started off a CD and was able to mount the drive, look at a > few files, and at that point I was pretty confident in the drive so I > installed lilo with with the new device name and rebooted (no RAID). > The machine came up, started to do a fsck, and then said there were > read errors. I restarted off the CD and now I can't mount the file > system. I tried a fsdebug but it couldn't read the partition. I don't > know what to do, I'm quite stuck. This wouldn't be to much of an > issue but the backup failed and I'm stuck sitting here with out my > data from the database (mysql). > > Can some one point in any direction? > > (Oh, and I did try the "clunky" drive again as well) > > Thank you! > > Matt I'm just a newbie, Matt, and I'm sure you will get more qualified opinions coming your way from people on the list. A once off cure, long enough to obtain a copy of the drive goes like this:- Stick the drive in a freezer for 15 - 30 minutes, reinstall and copy. I have never done it myself, but on another list some years ago this was suggested, and it was endorsed by a couple of other list members. There was an explanation, but I can't remember what it was now. Save it as a last resort anyway. Regards, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
